完形填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各小题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Life is not always smooth. There was a man who had    36    numerous failures in his life. But he said, "One success is    37    for me!"

    When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any    38    . Since then, his mother worked outside  39   he had to stay at home and take care of his siblings, He learnt cooking since then.

    When he was fourteen, he dropped  40   and began his life of roving.

    When he was eighteen, he married a girl, who,   41   , sold out all his properties and went back to her home several months after their marriage.

    When he was twenty, he    42   his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were   43   for him.

    When he was thirty-five, misfortune again   44   on him. When he was driving across a huge bridge, the steel ropes along the edge of the bridge were broken and he fell into the river with his car. He suffered such severe injuries that he could no longer continue his   45  .

    When he was    46    , he opened a gas station in a town. However, he   47  dispute(争端)because he beat his competitors    48   the billboard hanging problems.

    When he was forty-seven, he   49  his second wife, which had    50    stricken his three children.

    When he was sixty-six, he made a living by   51   his chicken-frying techniques to various restaurants in different places.

    When he was seventy-five, he felt  52  to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he   53   the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.

    When he was eighty-eight, he achieved great success and became well-known to the whole world.

    He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde Sandoz. He often said, "People always complain about the bad  54   . Actually it is not bad at all. As long as you are   55  and confident all the time, you will have a good weather every day."

A. achieved         B. undergone                C. tried                        D. undertook

A. great                   B. important            C. valuable            D. enough

A. words           B. money              C. property            D. families

A. while              B. but                 C. when               D. so

A. in                        B. out                 C. down               D. up

A. meanwhile       B. moreover           C. however             D. therefore

A. started                   B. took                C. lost                 D. changed

A. fit              B. tough               C. unusual             D. adequate

A. fell               B. hit                  C. put                 D. rested

A. life            B. major                 C. job                 D. education

A. forty            B. thirty-five           C. fifty-three           D. seventy

. A. went through    B. came into            C. came about          D. went against

A. contributing to      B. judging from         C. owing to            D. leading to

A. changed           B. married             C. missed              D. divorced

A. deeply            B. highly              C. generally            D. thickly

A. learning          B. promoting           C. developing           D. teaching

A. powerless          B. depressed           C. disappointed         D. hopeless

. A. turned up        B. turned to            C. turned down         D. turned in

. A. difficulties      B. misfortune           C. life                D. weather

. A. hard-working    B. brave               C. cautious             D. optimistic

Every year landslides {滑坡} cause 25 to 50 deaths and $1.5 billion in damage in the United States.They account for 15 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in Europe.And in Decem??ber, a single event killed more than 200 people in the Philippines.Sending workers to stabilize (加固) mountainsides using steel bars and cement (水泥) can help prevent disaster, but it introduces new difficulties.Shaking drills produce harmful dust and loosen heavy, dangerous debris (米屑)."It's quite a risky job," says Giorgio Pezzuto of D'Appolonia, an engineering company in Italy.

D'Appolonia, working with eight other companies, may have an answer:  a three-ton robot called Roboclimber."The idea is to operate a machine far away that can drill without a hu??man being on board,'" says Pezzuto, manager for the project, which is supported by the European Commission.Engineers claim that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual labor.The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged me??chanical spider (蜘蛛), has cost at least $2 mil??lion so far.The final product should be able to climb unstable mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement, and collect data on the slope' s stability.Testing should begin in May.

The underlined word "event" (in Paragraph l) refers to ___.

A.landslide         B.machine C.earthquake       D.flood

The purpose in writing this text is ___..

A.to tell people how serious the damage caused by landslides is

B.to tell people that sending workers to sta??bilize mountainsides is a risky job

C.to introduce a product that can be used to stabilize mountainsides

D.to show people how to use a new product

What does the robot look like?

A.A human being. B.A spider.C.A truck.       D.A drill.

The biggest advantage of this product is that_________.

A.it will be faster and cheaper than manual labor

B.it can climb mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement

C.it can collect data on the slope’s stability

D.it can drill without a human being on board

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